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Constantinides, Michael

 
9781330228623: Neohellenica: An Introduction to Modern Greek in the Form of Dialogues, Containing Specimens of the Language From the Third Century B. C. To the ... of the Cypriot Dialect (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Neohellenica: An Introduction to Modern Greek in the Form of Dialogues, Containing Specimens of the Language From the Third Century B. C. To the Present Day; To Which Is Added an Appendix Giving Examples of the Cypriot Dialect

It has been the unique destiny of the Greek language to have had, prehistoric times down to our own, an unbroken life.

Not one link is wanting in this chain which binds the New Greece to the Old. Modern Greece, by Professor J ebb.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Neohellenica: An Introduction to Modern Greek in the Form of Dialogues, Containing Specimens of the Language From the Third Century B. C. To the Present Day; To Which Is Added an Appendix Giving Examples of the Cypriot Dialect

The object of this book is to give the English student a knowledge of pure modern Greek, as it is now written and spoken by educated people, and also to make him acquainted with the more or less corrupt forms of the language which have prevailed at different times and in different parts of Greece, and which still linger in secluded localities where the peasantry have not been in a position to take advantage of the gratuitous education now provided by the State. The subject of the purification of the Greek language from the barbarisms which at one time disfigured it, is well explained in a letter of the celebrated scholar Philippos Johannou which forms the opening chapter.

Modern Greek, like many other European languages, has only in comparatively recent times assumed the form of a single fixed and definite language understood by the whole nation, and in this form it differs so little from ancient Greek that were a foreigner to address a Greek in the language of Lucian, he would be readily understood; in fact many of my pupils, reading with me a passage from a good modern author, have asked me whether it was ancient or modern Greek, and were not a little astonished when they were told that they might regard it as either. It is not too much to say that any one who has a competent knowledge of ancient Greek can learn to speak the modern language in a month, though of course fluency can only be acquired by constant practice.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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